Get the most from P.I.E. in San Diego

5+ Hours of Webinars

You'll get immediate access to nearly 6 hours of recorded webinars that will give you all the lecture content for the P.I.E. workshop. Watch and learn before you attend the live workshop.

Personalized Coaching

Personalized coaching is the key to mastering voiceover. During the live P.I.E. workshop, you'll receive plenty of personalized coaching from James Alburger and Penny Abshire in several areas of VO.

Everything is Recorded

All on-mic coaching sessions are recorded, and you'll get a copy of everyone's recordings - not just yours! Use the direction we give others to rapidly build your own performing skills.

I highly recommend spending a weekend with Jim and Penny. Several years ago, they gave me knowledge I would have been hard-pressed to get anywhere else and most importantly - Direction (career and otherwise), which led to success within a year. This was money and time well spent in my case!Bob Hurley (BobHurleyVoiceovers.com)

Personalized, one-on-one coaching is absolutely the best way to learn and quickly master voiceover performing skills. During our San Diego workshop, you'll work closely with James Alburger and Penny Abshire in the comfort of VoiceActing Studios. You'll experience several intensive on-mic coaching sessions covering several genres of voiceover. There's nothing quite like being in the same room with like-minded people who are all eager to learn and master new skills. And that's exactly what you'll get with P.I.E. in San Diego. Oh, and did we mention that you'll be served pie and ice cream on the final afternoon of the workshop?

Get your piece of the voiceover P.I.E.

Performing for voiceover can be some of the best... and most profitable... fun you’ll have! Ever!

But “doing voiceover” professionally as a full-time voice artist can be challenging, frustrating, and expensive... especially if you don’t know what you’re doing! In other words, voiceover, in many ways, is exactly like any other business you might start. But there are also many things that make voiceover very different from other business ventures... and voiceover is not for everyone!

To learn how to “do the business” correctly, you need to study with someone who’s done it... and continues to do it. We’ve been working in voiceover, both on mic and as producers, directors, copy writers, coaches, and production engineers for more than 35 years. Need more credibility? How about 11 Emmys for audio production and sound design, the author of “The Art of Voice Acting,” considered by most professionals to be the “bible” of the industry, and co-producers of the VOICE convention, the world’s original and only truly International voiceover convention.

Do some research before you sign up for any voiceover workshop! And consider, very carefully, any coach who tells you that “you’ve got a great voice,” or recommends that you produce an expensive demo after taking only a few classes. Chances are you may not be ready. There are literally thousands of people who want to break into voiceover, and those who succeed will be the people who are well trained and know what they’re doing. We’ll make sure your voiceover work has you on the right path.

Is voiceover right for you?

Maybe . . . maybe not!

Voiceover isn’t for everyone. Only you can be the judge as to whether or not pursuing a career in voiceover is right for you. But we can say that many of our students never intend to become voiceover talent. The performing and communication skills we teach are often more important than “breaking into voiceover.” We’ve taught professional speakers, sales people, clergy, news reporters, actors, tele-marketers, and even theme park employees how to be more effective communicators through the use of voiceover and acting skills.

Voiceover is a specialized area of “show-business” that requires dedication, acting ability, specialized performing skills, excellent reading skills, and passion. To be truly successful, you must want to do voiceover because you can’t live without it! If you don’t know yet if VO is something you might want to pursue, then our recommendation is to read The Art of Voice Acting book before you take any voiceover class. Just because people tell you “you’ve got a great voice — you should be doing commercials,” doesn’t mean you should drop everything and start taking voiceover classes. “Breaking into voiceover” is a serious decision that can literally change your life . . . and you should at least learn the basics about the craft and business of voiceover before you spend your hard-earned money on more classes, books, and workshops.

P.I.E. is different

The VoiceActing Academy P.erformance I.ntensive E.vent is NOT a seminar or webinar where you passively listen to lectures or watch your computer screen! Oh, no... P.I.E. is a totally interactive workshop. Whether you are attending our live San Diego workshop or attending the video conference call, you'll be interacting with James and Penny throughout the event.

Our goal is to give you the best training and education in acting for voiceover that you will find anywhere - and that can take some time. Our primary training is our Weekend Performance Intensive, which includes nearly 6 hours of webinars and 2 very full days of hands-on, personalized coaching. After you’ve got some basic training under your belt, we offer very affordable on-going support and coaching through our Conductor’s Club membership site. Visit www.ConductorsClub.com for details.

The VoiceActing Academy P.I.E. Workshop is all about using acting, voiceover, and performing techniques for more effective communication - and these skills can be used in every area of your life.

Because this workshop is all about your performance, you will - of course - get lots of time on mic! But, unlike most other VO workshops, we don’t put you in front of a microphone before you know what you’re doing. The first section of our workshop consists of five comprehensive webinars designed to help you fully understand the performing concepts you’ll be working with when you are on mic. We encourage you to study the webinars before attending the workshop.

You’ll get the information you need to know to be successful as a voice actor and communicator.

You’ll learn "tricks of the trade" and other tools you can use to immediately improve the way you communicate with others.

You’ll learn acting and performing “tricks” and techniques that you won’t find in any other voiceover or acting workshop... anywhere.

You’ll receive recordings of all of your on-mic coaching sessions to review what you have learned whenever you like.

You'll receive the recordings of everyone else in your workshop. Every coaching session is different, and we'll often give a direction note or tip to someone else in your workshop that you can use to improve your performance. You'll have access to everything recorded.

AOVA Workshop #3 - Chicago Workshop Session - The Business of Voiceover - 45 min MP3: An in-depth and comprehensive discussion of the business of voiceover by James Alburger & Penny Abshire with additional comments from Chicago Producer David Lewis. This recording immediately preceded the Chicago Guest Panel at the workshop.

When you attend a San Diego P.I.E. workshp, you can choose to receive the complete session recordings from any one of the 5 VOICE conventions. Each convention featured some of the top voiceover professionals from around the world. This bonus is only available when you attend both full days of P.I.E. in San Diego.

Register today for the VAA P.erformance I.ntensive E.ventDuring this Limited-Time Special Offerand SAVE $300 off our Regular Full Tuition*.Please select month when registering.

$497 Full Tuition paid in advance* covers both days and all webinars.SAVE $200 off the $697 walk-in tuition with full advance payment.

*Cancellation, Refund and Rescheduling notice: A non-refundable deposit of $100 (or $100 of your full tuition payment) gives you immediate lifetime access to the P.I.E. webinars and advertised workshop bonus downloads. You may cancel your registration for this event if notice of cancellation is delivered in writing within 10 days from your original registration date. Upon cancellation, your registration tuition will be refunded less the $100 non-refundable deposit fee for accessing the webinars, workshop materials and bonus downloads. Refund or cancellation requests after 10 days from the date of registration, or a "no-show" without written notification, will not be honored. In the event of cancellation or rescheduling by VoiceActing Academy, or you do not attend an event you have paid for in full, your registration can be applied to a future event within one year from your original registration date. If you registered with a $100 deposit, with the intention of attending a P.I.E. workshop, but fail to attend, your deposit can be applied to any future P.I.E. workshop within one year of your original registration date. If you do not pay your P.I.E. balance due and attend a workshop within one year, your deposit will be applied solely to the purchase of the P.I.E. webinars and any future workshop registration will be at the then current advertised event tuition. A minimum of 4 attendees is required to confirm a P.I.E. workshop. Travel and accommodations are not included in tuition. We recommend holding off on making hotel and travel arrangements until we confirm the event. Full tuition for P.I.E. is $697. Advance payment of $497 in full at time of registration will earn a discount of $200 off the full tuition. A non-refundable deposit of $100 gives you unlimited access to the webinars and guarantees your seat at a future workshop within one year, with a balance due of $447 due prior to the event. A $50 service fee applies for registrations made with a deposit and later upgraded to full tuition. For the purpose of this notice, business days are Monday through Friday, not including holidays. Send your refund or cancellation request to: [email protected] or by mail to VoiceActing, LLC, 13639 Freeport Rd., San Diego, CA 92129. These terms and conditions are subject to change or revision at any time without notice.